''Buzzcocks'' is the seventh studio album by English

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. It was released on 18 March 2003 by record label

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in the US and Cherry Red in the UK.

Critical reception

''Buzzcocks'' has received a mixed-to-favourable response from critics.

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opined, "If ''Buzzcocks'' doesn't reinvent this band, it does give their approach a bit of an overhaul, and the results make for an album which holds onto their strengths while lending a more mature perspective to their work; hard to imagine Rancid having anything this interesting up their sleeve twenty-seven years down the line from their first recording." ''

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'''s review was favourable, writing "it's nice to hear that middle age hasn't diminished the songwriting skills of original 'Cocks Pete Shelley and Steve Diggle." ''

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'', on the other hand, gave the album their lowest possible score of F, opining that the album sounds like "third-generation

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Track listing

# "Jerk" ( Pete Shelley) – 2:21 # "Keep On" (Shelley) – 3:19 # "Wake Up Call" (

Steve Diggle Stephen E Diggle (born 7 May 1955) is an English guitarist and vocalist in the punk band Buzzcocks. Biography Early years Diggle was born on 7 May 1955 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Manchester, and grew up in the Bradford and Rusholme areas ...

) – 3:19 # "Friends" (Shelley) – 2:57 # "Driving You Insane" (Diggle) – 2:24 # "Morning After" (Shelley) – 2:34 # "Sick City Sometimes" (Diggle) – 2:59 # "Stars" (

Howard Devoto Howard Devoto (born Howard Andrew Trafford, 15 March 1952) is a retired English singer and songwriter, who began his career as the frontman for punk rock band Buzzcocks, but then left to form Magazine, one of the first post-punk bands. After M ...

, Shelley) – 2:46 # "Certain Move" (Diggle) – 3:02 # "Lester Sands" (Devoto, Shelley) – 2:47 # "Up for the Crack" (Diggle) – 2:23 # "Useless" (Shelley) – 4:01

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes. ;Buzzcocks * Pete Shelley – guitar, vocals *

– guitar, vocals * Tony Barber – bass guitar * Philip Barker – drums ;Technical *Tony Barber – producer *Harvey Birrell – engineer *Duncan Cowell – mastering *Paul Burgess – sleeve layout *Chris Bushnell – sleeve layout *Buzzcocks – sleeve concept

References

External links

* 2003 albums Buzzcocks albums {{2000s-punk-album-stub